Featherbed [verb]
Definition of Featherbed:
do little or nothing; loosen
Synonyms of Featherbed:
● Abate
● Decrease
● Diminish
● Dodge
● Drop off
● Dwindle
● Ease
● Flag
● Goof off
● Idle
● Lax
● Lessen
● Let up
● Loose
● Moderate
● Neglect
● Reduce
● Relax
● Release
● Shirk
● Taper
● Tire
● Wane
● Ease off
● Lay back
Sentence/Example of Featherbed:
Return to his bedroom, throw off the clothes, beat the featherbed, see that the fustian and sheets are clean.
A bit of straw matting, laid over a featherbed, and covered with the under sheet, makes a very cool bed for an infant.
God becomes man becomes fish becomes barnacle goose becomes featherbed mountain.
“Now my featherbed,” says Aunt Elvira, and she has the porter jam it in alongside of me, which makes more or less of a full house.
He was now going to a home provided by benevolent persons as a kind of featherbed to catch the falling workhouse boy.
I have heard of one who used to get into the middle of a featherbed.
Coming home it was a gorgeous winter's night on the Featherbed Mountain.
I have a piece of mutton and a featherbed for you at all times; I pray make haste.
Featherbed, as the sun peeped over a rise in the land, waited impatiently.
I shall not insist on the featherbed, but I shall close the shutters and turn on the lights and be as cowardly as I please.